I am trying to get a list of Lord's finals on ANY site but it seems impossible but since 2000, Somerset have been runners-up in the CC 6times and the T20 4 times. I know they lost 2 Lords finals in 2010 and 2011. They did win a Lord's final in 2001 but since 2000 their losses far outweigh their triumphs.
Did Surrey lose the One Day final 3 years running across circa 2015-2017?
Just looked, they did.
Lost to us Gloucestershire 2015, Us 2016, Notts 2017.
And Surrey also lost 3 in a row from 1979-1981, a Gillette either side of 2 B & H. Also, I found amazing that we are regarded as losers on one BBC site from a few years ago because of all the finals we have lost but then at the end it does state that we have won 9 finals but that in itself does not make us 'Losers' compared to some sides who have hardly even appeared in many finals. The fact that only Lancashire have won more than us, does not put us in a losers bracket. Idiots.
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Interestingly from one of Maxwell's comments in that BBC comms piece it does appear to be the case that they sounded him out about possibly playing in the Essex County Championship game - the one that followed the Blast away games at Durham, Yorkshire and then the Friday night Bears v Pears derby.
Slightly disappointing to hear he rebuffed the idea - seems to suggest he's gone "no chance am I playing a short game Tuesday, Thursday & Friday and then a proper game Sunday to Wednesday".
Was that before he got pulled out of the Hundred? I can understand him not wanting to potentially jeopardise his presumably well paid contract by getting injured. It sounds like he was keen to play against Kent.
I'd be happy to have him back next season, and it sounds like he enjoyed his time with us. I know he wasn't at his best with the bat but he seems to have made a very good impression off the field. Interesting to hear him say that he doesn't like the sound effect that gets played when someone from the opposition bowls a wide!
Yes thought his contribution in that Kent game was excellent.
He sounds very clued up. With the sound effects I'm not keen on any of them - but it is slogball after all - he probably doesn't get that British sense of humour and the pantomime stuff in general just doesn't seem to land well with many Aussies who have just that little bit of a 'German' sense of humour about them. It's weird because in some ways Australian society is a long way ahead of the UK in terms of attitudes towards equality and respect for all, their women's sports teams professionalism a decade or more ahead of here etc... All this despite the country, certainly it's authorities being slightly more right wing than the UK traditionally has been but in other ways it seems a throwback to the 1970's/1980's at times even after twenty five years exposure to the Barmy Army their efforts at creating atmosphere within games is limited - constant adverts for Milo between overs at test matches notwithstanding - although I think the Barmy Army isn't these days what it was and has become ever so slightly generic and slightly crass at the edges - mirroring wider society sadly - (Ingerlund etc...)
See what Khawaja has said about the ashes crowds. He does have a point imho. When fringe elements of the barmy army are just using the c-word at will it's gone away from what it was for so long a lovely fun way to keep England test side going during bleak times. Sadly once again it's a mirror of UK society and how it has deteriorated really awfully the last 15-20-40 years or so. Then again I'm now an old guy and can recall far worse in bay 13 at the SCG
You can blame Joe public but to me it's the stakeholders that have inculcated this type of fan behaviour at the cricket. We've seen it at blast games with the cheapo tickets when the footy isn't on but obvs people paying 150 notes for a test ticket are no better
Amazing that the Australian team are often heard to criticise English crowds and yet the behaviour of Australian crowds and media in general when England visit, is nothing short of revolting. If you watch the cricket film/doc 'Death of a Gentleman' there are scenes on there that would make anyone feel uneasy and the way English cricketers are constantly made to feel unwelcome is staggering and the attempts to try and 'Have a dig' at every opportunity cannot be easy for a cricketer who feels intimidated as soon as the plane lands.